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Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom
Maurizio Peleggi
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Description for Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom
Paperback. Tourist adverts and glossy publications present Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions and a much-loved monarchy. This book challenges these commonplaces by offering a reinterpretation of the emergence and development of the Thai nation-state. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMT; HBJF; WTH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 569.
Tourist adverts and glossy publications present Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions and a much-loved monarchy. Historians too have contributed to Thailand's international allure by asserting its unique historical and cultural continuity in comparison to the other countries of South-east Asia, whose modern histories are stained by colonialism and nationalist struggles for independence. "Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom" challenges these commonplaces by offering a reinterpretation of the emergence and development of the Thai nation-state, showing it to be a long-term process shaped by interactions with the outside world in the pursuit of civilization and, ... Read more
Tourist adverts and glossy publications present Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions and a much-loved monarchy. Historians too have contributed to Thailand's international allure by asserting its unique historical and cultural continuity in comparison to the other countries of South-east Asia, whose modern histories are stained by colonialism and nationalist struggles for independence. "Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom" challenges these commonplaces by offering a reinterpretation of the emergence and development of the Thai nation-state, showing it to be a long-term process shaped by interactions with the outside world in the pursuit of civilization and, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861893147
SKU
V9781861893147
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Maurizio Peleggi
Maurizio Peleggi is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. He is also the author of Lords of Things (2002) and The BFI Companion to the Western (2002).
Reviews for Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom
'Maurizio Peleggi's new book on the modern history of Thailand offer a boldly innovative introduction to the kingdom and its nation-building projects. It concentrates on the long twentieth century when Thailand underwent seismic shifts in nearly every arena of human and institutional life, and from which the country emerged as 'modern' ... it successfully assimilates the most recent historical and ... Read more